believe it or not i was playing in a golf tourney, and on about the 13th hole a marshall came up to my foursome telling us to speed up play,we were holding up the group behind us.......... lol while he was telling us this the group in front of us was still teeing off on the next tee. get this we were just walking off the green. just goes to show you cant please all the peeps all the time lol
.................The guys I hear complain the loudest are the better players that take far fewer shots per hole than the group in front of them. They just don't get the fact that golfers making pars are going to be a lot faster than golfers making doubles.
DITTO THAT!
I agree with this statement - I've played a LOT of golf as a single, so I generally get a chance to observe most every demographic out there. It always seems to me that the people who complain about slow play are the better players.
Am I the only guy in the universe who doesn't care about slow play? I play much better when the course is slow, or else I'm playing by myself. People who play very fast, and always complaining about slow play disrupt me, hurry up my shot routine, and cause me to become agitated and rushed myself, which ruins my round/score. What's the big deal - are you in THAT much of a rush to get off the course?
Personally, I love to play fast. I usually play twilight and we really only have about 4 hours of daylight left when we start at 2:30... If there is nobody in front our 3-6 some we can finish before 6:00 every time.
For me usually slow play = waiting around a lot, I can't get any momentum going in a 5 hour round of golf.
Though I do not play good, I play reasonably fast. But I very often let groups who come up behind me play through (if there is nobody right in front of me, and if whoever I'm playing with is ok with it). I get sort of intimidated by a group waiting behind me or, if they are aggressive, hitting into me; and I hate to have anyone irritated with me.
I don't mind waiting and if nobody is behind me usually decline offers to let me play through, unless whoever I'm with wants to or the group is REALLY slow.
Last edited by Paka : February 17th, 2005 at 12:30 PM.
I agree with this statement - I've played a LOT of golf as a single, so I generally get a chance to observe most every demographic out there. It always seems to me that the people who complain about slow play are the better players.
Am I the only guy in the universe who doesn't care about slow play? I play much better when the course is slow, or else I'm playing by myself. People who play very fast, and always complaining about slow play disrupt me, hurry up my shot routine, and cause me to become agitated and rushed myself, which ruins my round/score. What's the big deal - are you in THAT much of a rush to get off the course?
Golf is not a race and I don't understand why people rush around the course with their focus on a sub 3hr round, but equally there is no need for slow play, either. Good course management, courtesy to others, etc.. Lets face it, we've all seen the 4 ball having a nice day out, completely oblivious to umpteen groups behind getting steamed up.....they don't know and are unlikely to ever understand.
It doesn't bother me if its slow starting from the first tee box on, because I expect it and just take it as it is. But when it gets slow after 4 or 5 holes I get kind of annoyed because by then I'm kind of in a groove, playing stop and go tends to throw me off. I'm not in a rush to finish but I also don't like to get thrown out of my groove.
I agree with this statement - I've played a LOT of golf as a single, so I generally get a chance to observe most every demographic out there. It always seems to me that the people who complain about slow play are the better players.
Am I the only guy in the universe who doesn't care about slow play? I play much better when the course is slow, or else I'm playing by myself. People who play very fast, and always complaining about slow play disrupt me, hurry up my shot routine, and cause me to become agitated and rushed myself, which ruins my round/score. What's the big deal - are you in THAT much of a rush to get off the course?
The only time that slow play really bothers me ,is when I 'm trying to get in 18 holes & running out of daylight.
I usually play after work during the summer on weekdays.
So time is limited for daylight hours then.
For the most part ,my home course isn't that crowed until weekends & the marshalls do a pretty good job regulating the play.
A few weeks ago there were 5 of us, we teed off as a 3 & 2 but caught up to 3 proper duffers, we then proceeded to play as a 5 and were still being held up by these plonkers. One bloke hit a drive about 100, then his 2nd went about another 100yrds, then he waited for the green to clear for 5 minutes to hit a fairway wood,he was about 300 yrds from the green and duffed it. We never got past, it was like that for 5 hours.
Any round over 4 hours is too slow. Anyone complaining about a round going too slow when it takes 4 hours or shorter really must enjoy their day job a little too much.
Same thing goes for guys that throw their clubs. "Come on man. You usually shoot 93. Is hitting a fat chili dip really that unexpected?"
banging the ball around for 4 hours on a nice day beats showing up at the officce at 8 am any day of the week.
There should be a universal signal for "can we play though ?" just as the "come on through wave" is used to allow others to play through. We ran into a situation where we were waiting behind 2 couples on every shot. They'd look back at us often so they knew we were there and there was no one in front of them. They'd always manage to be off the tee walking to their balls when we got there so we never had the opportunity to actually ask them...and we'd wait 5-10 minutes to hit every shot. We finally just skipped a hole and passed them.
I can get a little peeved by members of my own group. They are all still a bit leery of there long irons and fairway woods off the deck, but still stand behind a group 200 yards away holding a five iron thinking there may be some sort of divine intervention and the ball may go far enough to hit the group in front of us. FOR GODS SAKE HIT THE BALL YOU AIN'T GOING TO COME ANY WHERE NEAR THEM. ESPECIALLY IF YOU AIM AT THEM.
I remind them of the 200 yard par three that they hit a teed up 3iron on and still fall 30 yards short every time but it doesn't seem to register. After the wait they then proceed to fat out the shot 100 yards or worse.
Basically when it comes to this subject I don't really mind waiting on a group in front of me. But looking back and seeing the next group standing there with there hands on there hips waiting on my group tends to mess with my game a bit.
I am not a super fast player nor am I a slow player, but there is one thing that I do not care for.That is another single player behind me who is trying to set a worlds record for playing a round of golf. I am all for playing ready golf but when there is a foursome in front of me and there is a guy behind me and I look back and he is pacing like a caged animal that is a bit unsettling to me I do however let him go on through. There is just no reason for extreme slow play or setting a world land speed records, pick a nice pace and stay with it. The reason I am out on the course is to relax and have good day of golfing and not to set any speed records. Just the thoughts of a old geezer.
February 16th, 2005, 08:53 AM
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